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...that its allowance of a "reasonable salary" as earned income, in cases such as those of storekeepers would be difficult to determine and it would be better to class all income under $5,000 as earned income, 4) that inspection of tax returns by Congressional Committees would not foe objectionable providing the proceeding were secret, 5) that increased Federal estate taxes are unwise since this is a principal source of state income, 6) that tax on gifts would be difficult to enforce and yield little revenue, although it would tend to destroy the total capital of the country, 7) that...
Through four-score years and ten, the Foe pursuing...
...like New York so well that the Convention will come to New York from now on? every four years." That night there was another dinner ?a dinner of rejoicing at the Shoreham. Boss Murphy of Tammany almost forgot that The World, although Democratic in politics, is Tammany's foe. He, who never speaks in public, rose and carefully said: "I want to propose a toast?a toast to that able and active man, Herbert Bayard Swope." Public Ledger (Philadelphia...
...Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith...
Henry Cabot Lodge, veteran of Senators, son of the New England aristocracy, litterateur by preference, politician by profession, statesman by courtesy, the "clammy-handed," the cold, the unimpassioned intellectual, the foe of Wilson?is now the friend of Hughes. In the Senate a fortnight ago he undertook a defence of the Secretary of State's policy of nonrecognition of the Soviet Government...